Ringotan: Learn Japanese Kanji

Ringotan

About this app

Learn Kanji by actually writing it!

Ringotan is the first app built from the ground up to teach you how to WRITE Japanese Kanji, not just read them. By combining advanced input detection with industry-standard SRS (spaced repetition) algorithms, Ringotan ensures you learn as fully and quickly as possible.

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Ringotan is free while in beta. We update frequently, so be sure to check back for new features!

Ratings and reviews

I've been using this for a few days to supplement my Duolingo and I'm loving this. One downside to Duo, there isn't a study or review portion for the Hiragana before it wants you to learn Katakana. I'm not ready for it, so I can't progress further in the lesson plan. So now I'm doing word reviews on Duo and doing Ringotan to catch up on my Hiragana. It's working super well so far, and I'm glad I found this app. I plan to continue using this app even after mastering Hiragana.

The app has been great so far and enjoyable to use. One note, as of writing this review, is that when it prompts me to write the "ri" kana in hiragana, it instead is having me write the katakana version. That's the only issue I've run into. Edit: It seems that some kana, such as "ri"/り, can be different handwritten vs typed, so the app is prompting me correctly. I had only been familiar with the typed version.

This is an excellent app for starting to learn to write (and by extension read) Japanese. The main feature that I would love to see added would be one where it doesn't snap each stroke to be more "correct" in between strokes. There is a way to make it so that while you are making the stroke it doesn't draw the corrected one, but as soon as I lift my stylus it replaces my stroke with the correct one.

What’s new

• Added Textbooks "Quartet", "Tobira (Beginner)", and "Yookoso"
• Added options to change test area location, limit new kanji, and put new kanji before review
• Updated dictionary databases - some words may have changed!
• Removed Patreon link
• BUGFIX: Custom Review lags when using "Grades" lesson
• BUGFIX: "Minna No Nihongo" missing some kanji
• BUGFIX: Some screens not usable on perfectly square phones (there are dozens of us)
• BUGFIX: Some settings not resetting correctly